Posted by Harper on 05 November 2011 | Tags: mosync, html5, C++, cross-platform,
HTML5 may be the best thing since sliced bread, but some might argue it's not moving quite fast enough to keep up with the demands of the mobile market. APIs from W3C are slowly emerging, making it hard for pure HTML5 apps to take advantage of certain device functionality like high processor speeds, mobile cameras, accelerometers and even barometers. Meanwhile, clients and managers are bringing up HTML5 to developers, expecting them to get onboard, without fully understanding its limitations.
But MoSync, a small company from Sweden, has released the latest version of its open-source development environment, which it says combines the ease of development and UI slickness of HTML5 with the powerful capabilities of C++, giving developers the best of both worlds. Part of its latest (v2.7) release, it’s dubbed "Wormhole Technology", and offers several benefits for developers, while maintaining Mosync's core capability of enabling cross-platform development.
The main benefit is really...
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Posted by Carlo on 04 November 2011 | Tags: data consumption, onavo,
Last year at our MWC WIPJam, Guy Rosen from Onavo was one of our featured developer storytellers, and it's been great to watch the success Onavo has had since then with their data-saving apps for iOS and Android. We're happy to be able to share a guest post from Onavo's Chief Architect, Yuval Ariav (cross-posted from the Onavo blog), with some tips on how developers can put their apps' data consumption on a diet for the benefit of end users. Take it away, Yuval!
Yuval Ariav is Chief Architect at Onavo, the mobile data savings experts, where he is in charge of setting the company's roadmap from a strategic perspective. You can follow Yuval on Twitter, his blog or LinkedIn profile.
During our work on the ‘Magical Shrinking Machine’ here at Onavo, we have come across hundreds of thousands of different iOS and Android apps and services. After studying these apps, we have identified a relatively small set of design patterns (or “network usage models“) on the apps’ side that drive...
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Posted by Carlo on 02 November 2011 | Tags: app stores, marketing,
Sprint announced its "Place Your Ad" program this week, which will allow developers and publishers to bid on featured placement in its tab in the Android Market and its Sprint Zone app for its customers. This follows in the steps of other App Store providers like GetJar that use similar systems to sell their featured slots, but it also reinforces the need for developers to do their own marketing, rather than solely relying on app stores to do it for them.
This was a point that came up yesterday in the WIPJam at Apps World NYC, as Caroline mentioned in a tweet:
It's become clear over the past several months that the app store world is becoming more and more like the world of content decks in some ways from several years ago. Apps from big publishers are dominating the top-download charts, and once those apps get in the charts, they're hard to dislodge. When they do get knocked out, it's often by an app or game from another big publisher.
This used to happen because these...
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Posted by Harper on 02 November 2011 | Tags: droidcon, droidcon amsterdam,
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Droidcon, Europe's largest Android developer gathering, is coming to Amsterdam for the 1st time on November 22 and 23. Get registered now with the WIPDROID code for a 40% discount!
Droidcon is all about learning the latest about Android, meeting the Android community, and giving you a stage to talk about your apps or solutions or just discuss a problem you are facing.
This is your chance to become an expert on the latest Android release, Ice Cream Sandwich. Learn from the experts, including:
In total, there will be 30 speakers over 3 tracks covering Android development, how enterprise can make the most of Android devices and the business of Android apps. There will also be presentations on how Android apps can be...
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Posted by ThibautR on 27 September 2011 | Tags: events, london, droidcon,
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The London Mobile Week!
30th September to 7th of October and now 8 mobile events!
Droidcon, Planet of the Apps, Over The Air, TechHub, Apps Junction, FrenchMobile, MMA, Sybase Enterprise Workshop...
As the organizers of Droidcon next week in London we realized that there was quite a lot of mobile events going on in London that week!
So we contacted all of them and decided to call the week London Mobile Week and here it goes! It's taking a life of its own:
Whether you're developers, marketers, investors you know where to head off next week!
If you want...
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Posted by ThibautR on 08 September 2011 | Tags: mobile applications, web apps, presentation,
The slides of my talk at Turing Festival are available on slideshare!
Have a look!
[Disclaimer : this slide pack was prepared on a broken Mac! where only the browser was working! The entire presentation was thus prepared on sliderocket who saved my bum, by allowing me to import exisitng presentations (albeit in image format most of the time. The fact that I didn't have access to a file browser (they call it finder on a Mac) did not really help ... I still curse Apple to this day! But hope you enjoy the presentation. This is a long winded way to say that some of the slides look awful and I apologize for that... and I'm working on an official apology from Apple too :D ]
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Posted by ThibautR on 29 August 2011 | Tags: Newsletter,
Are you back?
We hope so! Cause we do not want you to miss our back-letter!
And if you chose August to take your holidays you might have missed a few things:
Back to Square One for WebOS with HP Looking to sell the OS (and its developer community?) while Microsoft and the Android community circle around!
Backend! Best joke from my Turing Festival presentation in Edinburgh done entirely from a browser. Next year the Fringe!
BCK? With Google’s acquisition of Motorola we wonder if we’ll see a NXS, a GGL and a UTUB in the market soon, or is it just about patents?
Back to school! With a new series of webinars on Android development sponsored by Immersion. Register quickly!
Back to Back conferences! London Mobile week is hitting us from Sep 30th to October 7th with OTA, MMA, Planet of the Apps, and Droidcon!
Backward? Some of the patent practices in the mobile space, heard of Lodsys anyone, let us know!
Back channel! As Google releases a...
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Posted by Carlo on 23 August 2011 | Tags: android, webinar, immersion,
Lots of kids are headed back to school this week, but what about you? Has the summer sun parched your brain as well as burnt your skin? Have you lost some of the momentum you had in the spring to a few months of heat, vacation and relaxation? Get your mind moving again by catching up on some of the latest news and tips for mobile developers in our Back to School webinar series, which starts next Monday. Head over to the events page to register for the webinars, and receive reminders when they're about to kick off.
The series, sponsored by Immersion, features more than dozen webinars spread over two weeks that offer you an easy and convenient way to catch up on some things you might have missed this summer, and to quickly get you up to speed on the latest must-have additions to your apps. The main focus of the series is on Android development, but there's something for everyone. Topics include:
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Posted by Caroline on 06 August 2011 | Tags: mobile apps,
I'm doing some research on all the components that go into making a successful app. Is it a good idea? Good planning. Good market research? Good marketing? Practice? Having investment? Living in 'the valley'? or having a good luck charm? My sense is a combination of the above, and a lot of hard work.
Help me out by completing this brief survey. Also - if you are interested in being a case study, please contact me directly (caroline at wipconnector dot com). Thanks!
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Posted by Carlo on 04 August 2011 | Tags:
Push notifications are part of the standard arsenal of developer tools for smartphone apps these days, and a key way to drive users back to apps and services. Urban Airship, one of the leading providers of push notifications (among other things!) recently teamed up with SimpleGeo to offer location-based pushed notifications. The company's VP of Growth, Dylan Boyd, stopped by to share more on the topic with us.
WIP: Hi, please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you do at Urban Airship.
DB: Hey! I’m Dylan Boyd and leading all the business development activities for The Ship. Which means I interact with developers, brand marketers, the big ISPs, etc. Also, we are based in Portland, which has a tech scene that is really starting to take off, and we’re hiring! Talk to us!
WIP: You had a big announcement last week in which you're working with SimpleGeo to enable location-based push notifications. We're familiar with push notifications, we're familiar with...
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